Ask HN: How do you feel when your coding assistant loses context?
Background: My dad, my mom's dad, and my uncle all suffered from dementia; having a deep, multi-threaded conversation which you were invested in, where you suddenly need to remind the other person of what you were talking about, or who they are, has emotional consequences that range from deep frustration to helpless anger. Can you feel when your agent has just compressed or lost context? Can you tell by how it bullshits you that it knows where it is, while it's trying to grasp what was going on? What's your emotional response to that? 1 comments on Hacker News.
Background: My dad, my mom's dad, and my uncle all suffered from dementia; having a deep, multi-threaded conversation which you were invested in, where you suddenly need to remind the other person of what you were talking about, or who they are, has emotional consequences that range from deep frustration to helpless anger. Can you feel when your agent has just compressed or lost context? Can you tell by how it bullshits you that it knows where it is, while it's trying to grasp what was going on? What's your emotional response to that?
Background: My dad, my mom's dad, and my uncle all suffered from dementia; having a deep, multi-threaded conversation which you were invested in, where you suddenly need to remind the other person of what you were talking about, or who they are, has emotional consequences that range from deep frustration to helpless anger. Can you feel when your agent has just compressed or lost context? Can you tell by how it bullshits you that it knows where it is, while it's trying to grasp what was going on? What's your emotional response to that? 1 comments on Hacker News.
Background: My dad, my mom's dad, and my uncle all suffered from dementia; having a deep, multi-threaded conversation which you were invested in, where you suddenly need to remind the other person of what you were talking about, or who they are, has emotional consequences that range from deep frustration to helpless anger. Can you feel when your agent has just compressed or lost context? Can you tell by how it bullshits you that it knows where it is, while it's trying to grasp what was going on? What's your emotional response to that?
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